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BLOKEDIT COMMAND
5.2 --
BLO~EDIT
Command File
The
three
types 01 lines that comprise the command
~ile
are
discussed in the following sections.
5.2.1 Comment lines
A
comment line
is
a line whose
first
character
is
an
asterisk
Fe,. examp le:
* *
THESE THREE LINES ARE BLOKEDIT COMMENT LINES
*
The
occurrence
of
comment
line-s
in
the
command rile
is
ignored
by
the BLOKEDIT command.
Comment lines serve only to
document
the
command
rile.
5.2.2 Command lines
A
command line is rgcognized by the
~act
that its
~irst
character is an
upper-~ase
alphabetic
character,
a
decimal
digitJ
or
a double
~uote
character.
For example,
FILENAME: 1
5,75-80
"
are thrge valid command lines.
Command
lines
~hich
begin with an
upper-~ase
alphabetic
character indicate that a source rile
is
being
name~.
Such
command
lines
are
used
to
specif~
from
~hich
~ile
the
subsequent lines are to be copied.
A
sour~e
rile
can
only
be
named
by
putting its file specification at the
beginnin~
oT
a
command
line.
Optionally,
the
suffix
and/or
logical
unit
numbe~
can be
speci~ied
in the standard format after the
file's name.
The
default
values
of
"SA"
and
zero
are
supplied automatically
i~
no explicit references to surfix or
logical unit number are made.
Command lines which begin with a decimal digit
indicate
that
the
command
line
will
contain
one or more numbers.
These numbers represent
the
physjcal
line
numbers
to
be
copied
~rom
a
source
file
which has been named using the
prior form
or
the
command
line.
Ph~sical
line numbers can be
up to rive digits in length and must be in the range 1-65535,
inclusive.
More than one physical line number can appear
on
a
command
line
iT
it
is followed by a
comma.
A
range
o~
ph~sical
line numbers can
be
specified
by
separating
the
start and end
of
the ra-ng-e with a hyphen (->. .
For--examplel
-"-
)
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